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The wild turkey, called by Choctaws
and Cherokees in differing tongues
the "wit of the woods," is supposed
by old hunters to have intelligence
above that of other birds. In general
it has. Yet sometimes it nods like
Homer, and sometimes it displays the
indifferent recklessness of a cross be
tween D'Artaguan and dear old Ouida's
hero, Bertie Cecil.
•C. S. Stribling lives near the lower
part of the San Antonio river, a few
miles above its debouchment into the
Culf of Mexico. Wild turkeys are
plentiful in the region, and he kills
a good many of them.
In winter it is never more than
three miles from his house to a roost.
When he wants turkey meat he sad
dles his pony before daylight, rides to
within a quarter-mile of the roost, dis
mounts, walks stealthily to the bur
dened trees, waits till he can see a
round, black form between him and
the sky, knocks one over and goes
home.
Mr. Stribling dors not pretend* to be
a sportsman in the finer sense of the
term; in fact, lie raises cotton as a
means of keeping in debt, but he likes
turkey, especially when it is self-fla
vored with nuts and wild pepper.
The river runs by his home and 13
thirty yards wide. Directly across
from his front yard grows a solitary
cypiTss that is probably 150 feet high.
One forenoon, while sitting on his
front gallery and enjoying a cob-pipe
he had been blackening for five years,
Stribling glanced toward the cypress
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> Was Nea.r Dearth
from Fa.ta.l Accident.
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Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, al
though lie lias seen plenty of sharp
fighting and has been often under fire,
once came nearer to losing his life on
board his own ship and when not en
gaged with the enemy than during any
battle in which he ever had part. He
tells the story in "A Sailor's Log." A
little before the destruction of Cer
ve'ra's fleet he had gone below to his
cabin with Commander Kimball of the
torpedo fleet, who had brought dis
patches. They were sitting at the
cabin table studying the situation,
when a startled voice exclaimed,
"Look out, captain!"
I threw my head to one side, he
writes, to see what I was to look out
for, when there was a tremendous
crash, and I was aware that I was hurt
and more or less dazed. My first im
pression was that one of the Spanish
gunboats had sneaked up on us and
put a shell into my cabin. I had been
thinking all the afternoon what a fine
chance it would be for them that
night. Rut when 1 was really con
scious I saw that that was not the
trouble.
My cabin was full of men, all star
ing at me, their eyes fairly sticking
out of their heads. They thought I
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| PALESTINE WAKING UP. |
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According to United States Consular
Agent Harris Palestine has shown un
mistakable signs of progress during
the past decade, much of which is to
be attributed to German enterprise.
"German colonists, merchants and
horticulturists." says Mr. Harris, "are
awakening that part of the Levant
from a lethargy of a thousand yeat'3.
Three years ago a German bank was
established in Jerusalem, with a
branch in Yata, which exchanged $15,-
(100,000 in 1901. The waters of the
Dead Sea, where no rudder has been
seen for centuries, are now being plied
by Go "v.t motor boats. A direct line
of communication has thus been open
ed up between Jerusalem and Kerak,
the ancient capital of the land of
Moab, which still commands the cara
van routes leading across the Arabian
desert. There is no doubt that Ger
man enterprise will also exploit the
phosphate fields situated on both sides
of the Jordan, when transportation
facilities shall have been sufficiently
developed to insure success to the
undertaking.
"For'many years Germany bus been
looking to Asia Minor and other coun
tries adjacent to Palestine as suitable
PAINTINGS SOLD BY MEASURE.
DlipotOHl of London at from SO Cent*
to 51.25 l'er luclc
Is the American spirit of commer
cialism Invading even the English
market for artistic wares? A poet s
recent advertisement in the London
Daily News, seeking a speculative pub
lisher for a "translifccnt. attractive,
and apotlu gmatie lyric," had already
aroused some comment, and now they
appear to he selling the paintings of
the leading contemporary artists by
the square inch. The announcement
of a sale at Christie's says that a
painting by the late T. S. Cooper, en
titled "Sheep Shearing." and measur
ing 48 by 72 inches, was sold for 310
guineas, while another representing
"Six Cows on the Bank of a River,"
and measuring 20 by 44 inches, paint
ed in 1877, brought 300 guineas.
This Is Interesting, it seems to ln
dlcftt# that good painting is worth
and saw perched on its top a wild gob
bler whose burnished feathers shone
in the sun. It stood calmly with head
erect enjoying the air and the placid
river beneath.
Stribling laid the pipe down care
fully. walked into his bedroom, picked
up his rifle of .44 calibre, and went
back to the gallery. He knew that
he would be forced to go a half-mile
downstream to the nearest ford, cross,
come back upstream, go back down
stream. and come back upstream in or
der to retrieve, but did not purpose
to be insulted.
He shoots well. He leaned firmly
against the end post of the gallery,
got the tip of the front sight on the
base of the bird's black beard which
hung from the gobbler's breast, held
it there for a moment, smiled as it
occurred to him that the thing was
too easy and pressed the trigger firm
ly and steadily.
There was the usual sharp crack,
which sounded doubly loud in the still
ness of morning, but the turkey was
unmoved. It evinced no curiosity.
Stribling tried it again, a little more
carefully and with less confidence;
same result. He said: "I may be get
ting old and wrinkled in my face, but
I'll bet the farm and all it costs me
that I can make you move." Same
result.
That was all the cartridges he had.
He walked to the bank of the river
and yelled at the bird. It looked down
at him and sailed away.
was killed, and I suppose they wanted
to see the last of the "old man." I
was soon aware that one of the doc
tors was feeling and twisting my
right arm, and that ray right shoul
der was in pretty bad shape. Through
it all I was sorry for Kimball, who,
I thought, was surely killed, and I
was greatly relieved when I heard his
voice, which sounded a mile away.
The men were running in a steel haw
ser, and it had picked up the steel bat
tle hatch, weighing something over
400 pounds, which was lying on deck,
ready to be put on the cabin hatch
when needed. The line had carried it
along until it came directly over the
hatch under which I was sitting, when
it slipped off, came down edge first,
and caught me on the shoulder in
stead of the head.
The man who called to me to look
out held on to it in his effort to stop
it, and came down with it.
My shoulder was badly mashed and
dislocated, but the excellent medical
men soon wiped the blood off, reduc
ed the dislocation, bandaged my arm
tp my side, and turned me in.
ti my head had been four inches
further forward I should never have
had the pleasure of writing this book.
territories in which to develop Ger
man markets. The Bagdad railroad,
which will lead through Anatolia, in
tersecting the headwaters of the Tigris
and Euphrates, to the shores of the
Persian gulf, is an enteiprise of vast
importance, not only to Germany, as
the promotor. and the Turkish em
pire, but to the world at large. It is
the greatest commercial and civilizing
factor that could be introduced into
this region and will tap the rich terri
tories which composed ancient Meso
potamia. Apart from new avenues of
commerce, a land will be opened up to
students and tourists which, owing to
expense and unsafe methods of travel,
lias thus far been practically inacces
sible.
"The commerce of Palestine to-day
is not unimportant. The products of
the country are wheat, barley, or
anges, oil, wine, nuts, figs, apples,
peaches, pears, pomegranates apricots
citrons almonds, cucumbers, lettuce,
onions, wild artichokes and aspara
gus. truffles, tobacco, sesame and silk,
while potatoes and other European
and American vegetables are being
introduced by German and French
colonists."
between thirty centa and $1.25 per
square inch in bondon; while, esti
mated as live stock, the six rows in
the latter picture appear to have been
valued at titty guineas each, despite
their advanced age, which precludes
the possibility of their being useful
for other purposes than landscape or
naments—although this is perhaps
minimizing the value of the riparian
rights along the river. What a wealth
of conjecture these facts suggest!
Think of the prices that some of the
enormous Munkacsy canvases would
bring if sold on tub basis, and of the
possible value of Rosa Bonlieur's
"The Horse Fair" —with stallions at
Tattersall prices! I.et the artist re
member to stretch his canvas wide
enough, or, if he be an animal-painter,
to put in a sufficient number of mar
ketable beasts, and there will speedily
he an end of the cry of the underpay
ment of artistic endeavor. —Harper's
Weekly.
FULL-SLOODED INDIAN BABIES.
Eut Few in Existence and the Number
Is Decreasing.
The present generation ot full-blood
ed Indian babies is interesting from
many points of view. In the first
place, says the Cosmopolitan, there is
no doubt that in a few yeai's there will
be no more full-blooded Indians born,
men and women of pure Indian
blood are rapidliy marrying either
white persons or Indians whose blood
is largely mixed with that of the
whites. Then, too, these little eopper
biown babies are something of an
anachronism, for many of them pre
serve, to a great extent, the bringing
up and training known to their fath
ers, and at the age of 13 or 14 find
themselves well versed in the charms
and incantatiions of the medicine men
and expert in the use of the scalping
knife, but with a lamentable lack of
subjects upon whom to practice their
skill. Moreover, these pure-blooded
children inherit, in many eases, large
sums from the sale of lands to the gov
ernment, or own valuable reservation
property, so that many of them have
more suitors than Penelope. It is
only on the reservations of the far
southwest that tho curious little In
dian bailies aim to be found. There
are now among the 20 tribes only 3,000
full-blooded Indian children. In these
same tribes there are more than 20,000
children through whose veins courses
a stain of white blood. They are
healthy, fat youngsters, and despite
their rough usage, grow up to be
6ti'ong men and women.
A LONG SEA LIFE.
An Italian Brig a Relic of the Six
teenth Century.
The famous old Italian brig Anita
S., which had well earned the proud
distinction of being tho slowest vessel
afloat., will make no more of her fa
mous long voyages. A cablegram from
Tenerilfe announces her arrival there
a'ter a prodigiously long trip from
Italy anil her condemnation as old and
uuseaworthy. She will be sold for a
few dollars and broken up for fire
wood. No ship afloat ever took longer
time to make a trip than the old Ital
ian brig did. She was 205 days going
from llrazil to Baltimore, Md. While
she was making this voyage other
ships sailed around the world. The
Rio clippers made three round trips
while tho Anita S. was wallowing
along to Ilultimore, and the China
packets sailed from New York to
China and back to Baltimore before
she completed the trip. While she
was wasting 1!I7 days at sea on a trip
to Montevideo, fast clippers out of
New York encircled the globe, and
during the 95 days she took to cross
the Atlantic on her way home to Italy
ships and barks made two round trips.
The Anita S. is a relic of the sixteenth
century, and is the only square rigged
vessel' ailoat steered by a tiller in
stead of a wheel. She looked like the
Santa Maria in which Columbus
crossed on Ills famous voyage to
America, and she ddn't sail half as
well. She is known the world round
as "the Sea Snail." She was well
named.
The South American Cowboy.
As the firelight shows them in tho
darkness of the hour that precedes
tile dawn, they are swarthy of com
plexion, dark-eyed, slight of figure,
clean of build. They remind you of
Gypsies, also of Moors, and in their
veins flows the blood of the Indians
who once owned tho pampa and lost
it to the Spaniards. There is Spanish
blood in them, too. The flourish with
which lie waves you to a stool made
of a cow skull, the grave hospitality
with which lie hands you the teacup,
the politeness with which lie receives
your remarks about the weather —
everything about his when lie is at his
best has a Spanish suggostiveness.
But still tho gaucho is not a Span
iard. The paiupa looks out of his
eyes, is in liis voice, his dress, his
manner. The wilderness speaks to
all who love it and teaches them
things which make them different
from other men.
President's Official Picture.
The engravers at tho bureau of en
graving and printing have completed
a vignette of President Roosevelt
that will always be used as the offi
cial picture of the president. After
his death it may be used on govern
ment money or securities, but not un
til then. This vignette was made
from what was decided to lie the be3t
photograph of the president after
every photograph lie has had taken
in tho last ten years had been exam
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